Excellent; thank you for the reply. I guess PPro has ben overhauled a lot recently? I'm not a power user so I have missed out. 1- today that click on curves works. 2- I bet my color settings are not correct. 3- Today, everything fits. 4- "Sequence color settings are Rec.709": actually, they were. 5- today the trash can shows in the window, so that's ok. attachment shows import window, right? When I do it your way, in the past, since this was all updated, ALL my folder files go into the timeline - NOT wanted. in fact, EVERYTHING in the folder goes in - NOT wanted. I have not seen any "stars". It sounds like the program was left open too long and made all those mistakes. Actually, it was from a fresh start-up. I should read tutorials on the new stuff. Where please? Just those links in "help", or are there better ones somewhere? Hmm I also see that clicking "trash" does not move them to the trash. Why? Now I have to go to the finder to figure out what I viewed as trash. Thanks! steve z
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